Quotes

• When you durst do it then you were a man. And to be more than you were, you would be so much more than the man

  Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7
• Fair is foul and foul is fair

  The witches Act 1 Scene 1
• Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name.


  Captain Act 1 Scene 2
• Unsex me here, and fill me from crown to toe, top full of direst cruelty


  Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
• The instruments of darkness, tell us truth, win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence


  Banquo Act 1 Scene 3
• Was not that nobly done? Ay and wisely too, for t'would have angered any heart alive. To hear the men deny't. So that, I say, He has borne all things well


  Lennox Act 3, Scene 6
• O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife


  Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
• Woe, alas! What, in our house?


  Lady Macbeth Act 2 Scene 3
• My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white


  Lady Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2
• I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums. And dashed his brains out.


  Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
• Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter


  Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
• That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap. For in my way it has


  Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4
• O valient cousin, Worthy gentleman


  Duncan Act 1 Scene 2
• Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself


  Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
• Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand


  Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1
• Let not light see my dark and deep desires


  Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4
• Look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't


  Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand


  Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1
• I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as to go o'er


  Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4
• "Til he unseamed him from the nave to th'chaps / And fixed his head upon our battlements" (1,2)


  Macbeth is valiant and brave on the battlefield. Poses a slight concern to the audience as the image is quite brutal.
• "I do fear thy nature: It is too full of the milk of human kindness" (1,5)


  Lady Macbeth gives the audience an insight into Macbeth's vulnerability. He is only human, and Lady Macbeth foresees his struggle as he comes to grips with the assassination
• "Come, you spirits/ That tend of mortal thoughts, unsex me here/ And fill me crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty" (1,5)


  Lady Macbeth is willing herself to evil spirits. Association with the supernatural - a typical trait of the gothic genre. (Context: play was written at a time of great superstition of the supernatural).
• "It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands- I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour" (5.1.30-32)


  Gentlewoman
• "Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies./ Some say he's mad, others that lesser hate him/ Do call it valiant fury" (5.2.14-16)


  Caithness
• "Those he commands move only in command,/ Nothing in love" (5.2.22-23)


  Angus
• "Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane,/ I cannot taint with fear" (5.3.2-3)


  Macbeth
• Seyton --I am sick at heart,/ When I behold--Seyton, I say--/This push /Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived long enough" (5.3.23-25)

  Macbeth
• "I have almost forgot the taste of fears" (5.5.11)


  Macbeth
• "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to day/ To the last syllable of of recorded time;/ And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!" (5.5.22-26)


  Macbeth
• "The devil himself could not pronounce a title/ More hateful to mine ear" (5.7.10-11)


  Young Siward (speaking to Macbeth)
• "Macduff was from his mother's womb/ Untimely ripped." (5.8.19-20)


  Macduff
• You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so

  Banquo, Act 1, Scene 3
• Smoked with bloody execution... unseamed him from the nave to th' chops


  Captain Act 1, Scene 2